John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Chase is recuriting a blockchain leader; Elavon gets nod from U.K.'s Faster Payments scheme; Abine suffers a breach; Self-driving car deliveries advance in San Francisco.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm's out of India's regulatory spotlight; Mary Meeker's new investment firm gets a brand; Prepaid trade group changes its name; Bitcoin processor turns down investment.

As the federal budget dispute shoves an increasing number of government workers to the sidelines, there’s a window to provide payments relief that’s superior to options such as payday lending and bartering.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Sony's increasing production of facial recognition cameras; Finger ID can be spoofed; Android apps send data to Facebook; Swift's payments technology expands.

Nestled among the waves of tourists and commuters near Grand Central Terminal is a spot were a “no cash” store is working, free from political pressures. But its success still suggests that paperless payments are a niche play.

Signature Bank on Jan. 1 will open its Signet Platform to support real-time settlement for commercial payments. The bank is collaborating with trueDigital Holdings, a New York-based blockchain infrastructure, exchange and settlement technology company.

Hostilities toward the legal U.S. cannabis industry are softening considerably, with signs of further removing cash and digital workarounds from a market that has long been shunned by traditional payment cards.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Breach woes for Uber; Australia welcomes Alipay; payment tools for freelancers; and more.

The digital ID market has massive potential, but many fundamental problems that must first be overcome. Among them: The companies best positioned to provide a viable digital ID platform are not the ones best positioned to benefit from it.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web Today: Square refiles for a bankiing license; UBS gets an AML fine; P2P for crypto; Digital receipt fintech Flux attracts investors; Coinbase offers cryptocurrency education.